the people behind the field
AI legends,
AI legends,
alphabet-soup demystified.
Profiles of the researchers, engineers, and visionaries behind today's AI. Read their essays, watch their talks, follow the ones still shipping.
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Who founded the field?
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Alan Turing
1912–1954
father of computing
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Claude Shannon
1916–2001
information theory
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John McCarthy
1927–2011
coined 'artificial intelligence'
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Marvin Minsky
1927–2016
co-founded MIT AI Lab
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Frank Rosenblatt
1928–1971
invented the perceptron
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Donald Michie
1923–2007
machine learning pioneer
Who is shaping AI today?
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following Geoffrey Hinton
today
deep learning · Turing Award
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following Yann LeCun
today
convolutional networks · Meta AI
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Yoshua Bengio
today
Turing Award · 2018
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Fei-Fei Li
today
ImageNet · HAI Stanford
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following Andrej Karpathy
today
former Tesla AI · educator
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Demis Hassabis
today
DeepMind · Nobel Prize
this week · featured
Geoffrey Hinton on uncertainty.
78-minute Royal Society lecture, with timestamps and a TL;DR. One of the clearest thinkers in the field on what we don't yet understand.
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